dave ramsey, the host of "the dave ramsey show" welcome. >> thank you piers, good to be with you. >> on the face of it. a good bit of fun everybody can hope and dream, what is wrong with that? >> well, the problem is several things. one is false hope, because as you said in your open analysis, you are more likely to be struck by lightning six times than win the ticket tonight. so this is just crazy. and the problem is, that it is a tax on the poor and on people who can't do math. rich people don't do the lottery, look at who is in line, daryl and his other brother, daryl. >> well, i know a lot of people who play the lottery, basically, greedy pigs. there are statistics to that, the majority of people say that the majority of lottery ticket buyers tend to be poorer, uneducated, minority groups, and so on. those statistics are there, but at the same time aren't they the most designed to gain by winning? and what is wrong with giving that section of society a bit of hope, even if in the end it turns out to be a hope that is not realized? >> well, because it is false hope, is the problem